Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hosea 14:4
(e) I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
(e) He declares how ready God is to receive those that do repent.
(e) I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
(e) He declares how ready God is to receive those that do repent.
Verse Hosea 14:4. _I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING_] Here is the _answer_ of God to these prayers and resolutions. See its parts: - 1. Ye have backslidden and fallen, and are grievously and mortally wo...
I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING - God, in answer, promises to “heal” that wound of their souls, from where every other evil came, their fickleness and unsteadfastness. Hitherto, this had been the charac...
CHAPTER 14 The Return and the Glorious Redemption _ 1. The exhortation to return (Hosea 14:1) _ 2. The glorious redemption (Hosea 14:4) Hosea 14:1. This chapter is a wonderful finale to the message...
HOSEA 14:1 (Heb. Hosea 14:2). ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE AND YAHWEH'S FORGIVENESS. The section begins with a passionate appeal to Israel to repent and confess his sin (Hosea 14:1 f.). A promise of amendment...
BACK-SLIDING. Compare Hosea 11:7; Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 14:7. HIM: i.e. Israel....
DISCOURSE: 1176 THE BLESSINGS THAT PENITENTS MAY EXPECT Hosea 14:4. _I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him_. MEN who have never seen the evil...
FREELY— Are good works then nothing, you will say? "Is there no place at all for them in the doctrine of repentance? I answer, that hitherto the discourse hath been about remission of sins, and the gi...
PEACE REMAINSLAVED TEXT: Hosea 14:4-6 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the...
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING, I WILL LOVE THEM FREELY - God's gracious reply to their self-condemni...
ISRAEL WILL SURELY REPENT AND BE FORGIVEN Hosea makes a touching final appeal for repentance. He assures Israel of God's mercy, and closes with a description of the blessings that will follow the ren...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 14 GOD CALLS TO ISRAEL TO RETURN TO HIM V1 Return to the *Lord your God, people of Israel. Your *sin has made you fall....
HEAL... LOVE. — If the foregoing be the offering of penitent lips, then the majestic reply of Jehovah is full of superlative grace....
_[Hosea 14:5]_ אֶרְפָּא֙ מְשׁ֣וּבָתָ֔ם אֹהֲבֵ֖ם נְדָבָ֑ה כִּ֛י...
THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I to let the...
2. THE LAST JUDGMENT Hosea 13:1 - Hosea 14:1 The crisis draws on. On the one hand Israel's sin, accumulating, bulks ripe for judgment. On the other the times grow more fatal, or the prophet more tha...
"I WILL BE AS THE DEW" Hosea 14:2 LIKE the Book of Amos, the Book of Hosea, after proclaiming the people's inevitable doom, turns to a blessed prospect of their restoration to favor with God. It will...
“I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING” Hosea 13:15-16; Hosea 14:1-9 The prophet here ransacks the world of nature for phrases sufficiently expressive of his transports of joy. The whole world seems laid und...
The cycle closes with the final call of the prophet, and the promise of Jehovah. The call was to the people to return, because by iniquity they had fallen. The method suggested was to bring the words...
_Gods. The Assyrians, instead of protecting, oppress us; while Egypt, famous for horses, sits unconcerned. (Calmet) --- But the source of all our evils are the idols, which we will follow no more. ---...
Here we have the second division of the Chapter, in a Cluster of the richest promises. Reader! contemplate the Lord Jesus in all these precious things, (for He is the speaker), and oh! for grace, that...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
_BACKSLIDING AND ITS CURE_ ‘I will heal their backsliding.’ Hosea 14:4 In the English Bible the word ‘backsliding’ is found fifteen times, and represents in English several words in the original, e...
XIII. CONCLUSION A. And we will close with the Lord's desire for Israel and within these verse is also His desire for all of his children 1. Hosea 14:1-9 (NASB) Return, O Israel, to the Lord your Go...
God here confirms what we have observed respecting his gratuitous reconciliation, nor is the repetition useless; for as men are disposed to entertain vain and false hopes, so nothing is more difficult...
Chapter 14. It is this last work that we find in chapter 14 of the prophet. Israel, returning to Jehovah, acknowledges his iniquity, and addresses himself to the grace of his God. Thus only could he r...
I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDINGS,.... This and what follows is the Lord's answer to the above prayer; and this clause particularly is an answer to that petition, "take away all iniquity", Hosea 14:2; si...
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. Ver. 4. _I will heal their backslidings_] Relapses, we know, are dangerous, and apostasy little less th...
_I will heal their backsliding_ I will deliver them from a backsliding heart and way, and remove those judgments they have brought upon themselves thereby. The Lord says, _I will heal_, &c., a usual m...
A FINAL EXHORTATION TO RETURN, WITH A PROMISE OF REDEMPTION. After having shown the apostate Israelites in various ways in what their guilt consisted, the Lord here once more appeals to them to retur...
I will heal their backsliding, all the calamities brought upon them by their unfaithfulness to the Lord; I WILL LOVE THEM FREELY, with the fullness of His abundant love and mercy; FOR MINE ANGER IS TU...
4-8 Israel seeks God's face, and they shall not seek it in vain. His anger is turned from them. Whom God loves, he loves freely; not because they deserve it, but of his own good pleasure. God will be...
I WILL HEAL: it is a usual metaphor in Scripture; sin is our disease. God is the Physician who healeth us, PSALMS 103:3 JEREMIAH 3:22; and he doth it through Christ, in whom this promise is made to re...
Hosea 14:4 heal H7495 (H8799) backsliding H4878 love H157 (H8799) freely H5071 anger H639 away H7725 ...
‘I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.' YHWH's response will then be that He will heal their backsliding and love them freely, because in view o...
ISRAEL ARE CALLED ON TO RETURN TO YHWH WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT WHEN THEY DO SO YHWH WILL RESTORE THEM AND LOVE THEM FREELY, AND THEY THEN LEARN OF ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT HE HAS IN STORE FOR THEM AS...
Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity._ Let anyone here, who has turned aside from the Lord, hear these tender pleading words, and then yield to...
According to the heading of this chapter, we have here «an exhortation to repentance,» and «a promise of God's blessing.» Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by...
Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity._ Come back, poor wanderer! My brother or my sister, if your heart has grown cold toward your Lord and Mast...
Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God;_ Bless his name that he is still thy God, however much thou mayest have backslidden, thou hast not lost thy right to claim him as thy God, for he...
Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity._ When we fall by sin, we must regain our comfort by going back to the place where we lost it: «Return unto...
CONTENTS: Entreaty and promise to Israel. Restoration foretold. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though backslidings from God are dangerous diseases of the soul, yet they are not incurable, for God grac...
Hosea 14:2. _So will we render the calves of our lips._ The fruit of our lips, in worship, in praise, and in all holy obedience. The sacrifices of thanksgiving are pleasing to God. Hosea 14:3. _In the...
_I will heal their backsliding._ THE AWFUL STALE OF BACKSLIDERS In the history of the Israelites there is no feature more striking than their frequent rebellions and backslidings. It is amazing to t...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 14:1 Hosea finishes his book with a series of moving appeals to the wayward northern kingdom to return to the Lord and find healing and covenant renewal. ⇐
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 14:4 Astounding promises follow the calls to repentance to encourage Israel to return. The Lord WILL HEAL THEIR APOSTASY. As noted in Hosea 5:13, the prophets oft
CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 14:4.] Promise of mercy follows. First heal all injury caused by apostasy. FREELY] Gratuitously and with perfect spontaneity (Ezekiel 16:60). “The word means _impelled_ thereto...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 14:1 The foregoing part of this book abounds with denunciations of punishment; this closing chapter superabounds with promises of pardon. Wave after wave of threatened wrath had roll...
Chapter 14 ends God's plea with the people. His arms are always open; He's always ready to forgive. O Israel, [God said,] return unto the LORD thy God (Hsa Hosea 14:1); You've gone away, you've turn...
2 Corinthians 5:19; 2 Timothy 1:9; Deuteronomy 7:7; Deuteronomy 7:8;...